Staff Nurse - Pre-Assessment Clinic

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization in London is seeking a Band 5 Staff Nurse for the Pre Assessment Clinic. The role involves assessing patients for surgical procedures, ensuring optimal preparedness for surgery. Candidates must have extensive post-registration experience in a surgical or medical ward and possess strong communication and interpersonal skills. This role offers training and multidisciplinary collaboration, with a working schedule from Monday to Saturday.

Qualifications

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience in pre-operative care.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients for surgery ensuring optimal health.
• Work with GPs and anaesthetists to provide assessments.
• Make autonomous decisions regarding patient care.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Teamwork

Experience in surgical/medical ward

Education

Post-registration experience

Job description

Band 5 Staff Nurse - Pre Assessment Clinic

Do you have good communication and interpersonal skills, along with the ability to work as part of a team? Are you experienced in liaising with a wide variety of members from the multi-disciplinary team and passionate about improving the patient’s surgical pathway? Then this could be the role for you!

Do you have extensive post-registration experience in a surgical and/or medical ward?

Pre-assessment personnel play a pivotal role in delivering safe and efficient pre-operative care by optimising patients for surgery.

Our service sees 20,000 patients a year, optimising their health to ensure they are at their best level of fitness prior to anaesthetic and surgery.

We support you through a supernumerary period of 4-6 weeks.

Important Dates

• Closing date: 11/08/2025 at Midnight
• Interview date: 26/08/2025

You will work with multidisciplinary teams, including GPs and anaesthetists, to provide effective assessment ensuring our patients and their families/carers receive excellent preparation for surgical procedures.

It is an exciting time to join our service as we have transitioned into Epic. We have recently introduced a state-of-the-art digital preoperative assessment programme aimed at providing all our patients with the highest standard of surgical care. Our assessments are conducted face-to-face in the clinic and via telephone as required.

Our working days are Monday to Saturday from 0900-1900, with cross-site working between Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital.

Pre-assessment personnel will assess patients for specialties including ENT, Orthopaedics, Urology, Vascular, Breast, Plastics, and general surgery, among others.

Once competencies are signed off, you will be expected to make autonomous decisions regarding your patients, while supporting the service, management, and colleagues.

About Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

We comprise five of the UK’s best-known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton, and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark. We have a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research, and innovation.

As one of the UK’s busiest and most successful foundation trusts, we provide specialist care for conditions including heart and lung, cancer, and renal services, along with a full range of local hospital and community services in Lambeth and Southwark.

We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching, and research. We also host a National Institute for Health Research biomedical research centre and dedicated clinical research facilities.

With around 22,700 staff, we are one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and a major local employer. We aim to reflect the diversity of our communities and develop partnerships with local people, patients, NHS organisations, local authorities, charitable bodies, and GPs.

Contact Details

For further details or informal visits, contact:

• Name: Gertrude Anisiobi
• Job Title: Sister
• Email: [e-mail]
• Telephone: [phone]